Tuesday, August 8, 2017

William Lowndes Yancey was described as the Patrick Henry of the
Confederacy. Eric Walther’s biography of follows the evolution of a
staunch unionist to the orator of secession. Yancey was the son of a
Navy war hero. The death of Yancey’s father, and the remarriage of his
cantankerous mother to a New England preacher had a profound impact on
young William. The young Yancey grew to hate his father-in-law and the
New England society that spawned him, a hatred that spurred Yancey’s
politics for the rest of his life. Yancey was educated in New England,
but moved back to the South, and gradually shifted from being a staunch
nationalist to become the pre-eminent orator of secession.

By the late
1840s, Yancey came to believe that the interests of the South lay
outside of the Union, and he agitated for secession from that point. He
tried, unsuccessfully, to split the Democratic party in 1848, succeeded
in splitting the party in 1860 and then the Union in 1861. Having
succeeded in bringing about the division of the Union, he served the
Confederacy as an ambassador in England, and then in the Confederate
Senate. He died in 1863, having lived long enough to see his
Confederacy in deep trouble after the twin disasters of Gettysburg and
Vicksburg.

At Vicksburg, Grant initiated a concept of total war and annihilation against Americans in the South which caused Sherman to worship him. The endless streams of paid substitutes and immigrant recruits sent by Lincoln to fill his constantly depleted ranks far surpassed the small citizen armies of the South who fought with their homes behind them. Grant may have learned this from British Col. Banastre Tarelton, and saw sheer brutality against soldier and civilian alike as an effective manner in which to subjugate the South. Monitoring both Grant, Sherman and Sheridan destructive campaigns was a young Spanish attache, Captain Varleriano Weyler, who in the mid-1890s became known as “Butcher” Weyler for herding Cuban women and children into concentration camps and burning the countryside.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Grant’s New Kind of War

“What Sherman could not see was that Grant had, in those silent months before Vicksburg, evolved a new psychology for the Federal armies. At [Fort] Donelson the seed of the new idea had started to grow when he had noted that if two fighters were exhausted the first to revive would be the victor.

Lying at the foot of Vicksburg’s cliffs, Grant had come to the irrevocable belief that, in the end, triumph would come to that army which never counted its dead, never licked its wounds, never gave its adversary breathing space, never remembered the past nor shrank from the future – the army which dismissed old rules and ignored rebuffs – the army which held implicit faith in a simple and eternal offensive.

As he prodded his men . . . , Sherman’s eyes began to open, [and] the old military world of West Point [seemed] to spin around beneath him and disappear. This was a new kind of war – and Grant was making his own rules as he went along. Here was an army caring not a whipstitch for a base of supplies. From field, barn, smokehouse, and cellar they were extracting epicurean meals.

When they squatted on their haunches at noon, they fried ham, bacon, pork chops, beefsteak . . . they rolled blankets around bottles of wine and whiskey lifted from baronial sideboards. What was a base of supplies to them? They were not professional soldiers. They were western pioneers – a new generation of pioneers loose in a new country with rifles and axes. Had their fathers or grandfathers given a damn about a base of supplies when they had crossed the Ohio long ago to enter the wilderness?

While his men built a new bridge over the Big Black River, he lay down in a Negro’s cabin to snatch a few moments of sleep. It was midnight . . . [and] Grant had just ridden up. Twenty-five years later Sherman recalled the scene in detail:

“I rushed out bareheaded and taking him by the hand said, “General Grant, I want to congratulate you on the success of your plan. And it’s your plan, too, by heaven, and nobody else’s. For nobody else believe in it.”

It was as near to hero-worship as Sherman would come in a lifetime that held no heroes.”

Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior advisor for policy,
appeared on Fox News Tuesday evening to discuss a number of topics from
the President’s skills as an orator to the “extreme” media with Laura
Ingraham.

Miller
offered effusive praise regarding his boss and continues to be a
staunch and vocal advocate of the moves the President has made since
taking the White House.

Miller commented regarding the President:

“President Trump’s the most gifted politician of our
time, and he’s the best orator to hold that office in generations, and
so we’re gonna take the message out to the people

He is the leader
of this nationwide and worldwide populist movement and it’s about
uplifting working class people, black, Hispanic, white, all backgrounds .
. .”

Two good Samaritans suffered stab wounds on Sunday when they tried to
come to a woman’s aid in a Publix parking lot in Seminole. That’s when
Pinellas County deputies say a third good Samaritan with a gun stepped
in and put an end to the struggle without firing a shot.

According to the sheriff’s office, the unusual string of events began
to unfold around 12:40 p.m. Aug. 6 in the Publix parking lot at 7880
113th St. Rossana Lynn, 44, was sitting in her 2010 Toyota Highlander
when Bobby Martin Watson, 49, of St. Petersburg is accused of walking up
to her vehicle, opening the door and trying to reach for her purse.

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders
itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”That the Trump presidency is bedeviled is undeniable.

As President Donald Trump flew off for August at his Jersey club,
there came word that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III had impaneled a
grand jury and subpoenas were going out to Trump family and campaign
associates.

The jurors will be drawn from a pool of citizens in a city Hillary
Clinton swept with 91 percent of the vote. Trump got 4 percent.

Conservative talk radio, including the Mega Rushie (Rush Limbaugh)
and the Laura Ingraham show have given some air time to a discussion of a
possible HBO television series in the making, “Confederate.”

The reported theme of the show is that the South won the War for
Southern Independence (called the Civil War by Yankees) and divided the
nation. We are told that in this show slavery still exists in the
South.

So what’s the point of a show like this?

Well, at first glance it’s an attack on the modern South, and on many
Americans who honor Southern heritage. It could be seen as part of the
assault on Southern Culture and American history as is being conducted
through the removal of statues and memorials to Southern heros like
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the hundreds of thousands of
Americans who fought for the South against the Yankee invasion.

It could be seen as a continuation of the “Obama apology tour,”
highlighting negative aspects of American history like slavery.
Ofcourse, we won’t see anything about the massacre of 60 million
innocent unborn through abortion on this series or any other.

But, I think there may be a larger political objective behind this
series, than an attack on American history or a region of the nation.

The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee is
warning GOP senators to learn from the example of those in President
Trump's party who stood up against him and lost at the ballot box.

Ronna Romney McDaniel was speaking specifically Monday on "The Laura Ingraham Show" about Sen. Jeff Flake
(R-Ariz) and his reelection chances next year. Flake has spoken out
publicly against Trump recently, and McDaniel warned he could face the
same fate as former Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), both whom opposed Trump and lost Senate campaigns last year.

“If
you look at 2016, the senators that did not support the President …
they fell short in those Senate races,” she said. “There is a cautionary
tale there because voters want you to support the president in his
agenda."

Even to casual observers, it has been obvious for months that the
left is orchestrating a tightly-coordinated campaign to undermine and
delegitimize the current presidential administration.

As an extension of the decades-long campaign to wrestle the narrative
away from conservatives, independents and centrists, they’re smearing
right-leaning commentators with anything they can find.
In the take-down
of Bill O’Reilly and Monica Crowley and attempted hit on Sean Hannity,
for example, it’s more than evident.

An attorney for Trump, Jay Sekulow discussed the new
Lynch-Clinton docs with fellow member of the American Center for Law and
Justice, attorney Jordan Sekulow on his radio show Monday morning.

Jordan Sekulow pointed out that the new Lynch-Clinton docs
released after a FOIA request, redacted FBI email addresses and
speculated that if the emails went all the way up to the AG, they most
likely went all the way up to James Comey; the redacted email address
can actually be James Comey’s.

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On June 1st, President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.

He was right to do so.

Paris accord supporters were always deluding themselves about China's commitments to reduce carbon emissions. As I explained,
they "cite China's reduced coal usage as evidence of its seriousness
about the process. Unfortunately, their assumption rests on the
reliability of Chinese government data." That data, I suggested, was not
reliable.

I was correct. On Tuesday, a BBC investigation outlined massive data flaws that undercut the very essence of the Paris climate accord.

China and India, respectively the world's top and fourth highest
carbon emitters, are vastly under-recording their emissions. The BBC
notes that "levels of some emissions from India and China are so
uncertain that experts say their records are plus or minus 100%."

The number of advertised job openings rose to a record-high 6.2
million in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.

Tuesday's release marked the first time that advertised job vacancies
cleared the 6 million mark, which had been approached but not hit a few
times in the past few years of the recovery. The data goes back to
December of 2000.

When Democrats think about their party’s problems on the political map, they tend to think of President Trump’s ability to win the White House despite losing the popular vote and Republicans’ potent efforts to gerrymander
congressional districts. But their problems extend beyond the Electoral
College and the House: The Senate hasn’t had such a strong pro-GOP bias
since the ratification of direct Senate elections in 1913.

Even if Democrats were to win every single 2018 House and Senate race
for seats representing places that Hillary Clinton won or that Trump
won by less than 3 percentage points — a pretty good midterm by
historical standards — they could still fall short of the House majority
and lose five Senate seats.

This is partly attributable to the nature of House districts: GOP gerrymandering and Democratic voters’ clustering
in urban districts has moved the median House seat well to the right of
the nation. Part of it is bad timing. Democrats have been cursed by a terrible Senate map in 2018: They must defend 25 of their 48 seats1 while Republicans must defend just eight of their 52.
But there’s a larger, long-term trend at work too.

President Trump's national security adviser has drawn the wrath of
Trump's populist supporters, friendly media outlets and allies of chief
strategist Steve Bannon as the dynamics of the West Wing once again
shift amid a staffing shake-up that shows no signs of slowing down.

Internal rivalries
have ebbed and flowed throughout Trump's young presidency with little
lasting effect on the White House hierarchy until recently. The White
House's roster of top staffers remained stable through months of
intrigue until the recent departures of press secretary Sean Spicer and
outgoing chief of staff Reince Priebus.

Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government
employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the
newspaper’s employees are not just on the receiving end of leaks, but
are actually soliciting government employees to become leakers. What’s
more, the emails demonstrate the Times colluded with the
president of government union to encourage and solicit these
leaks—something that may become highly problematic for both
institutions.

“Thanks again for taking the time to speak today,” Coral Davenport, an “Energy and Environment Correspondent” for the New York Times,
writes in an email to John J. O’Grady of the EPA workers’ union.
O’Grady is the president of the AFGE Council 238 in Chicago—which
represents EPA workers.

“As I mentioned, I’m working on a story looking specifically at
concrete examples of unusual secretary at E.P.A.,” Davenport states,
continuing:

I’ve heard a lot of second-hand rumors, but in order to
report these incidents, I’d need to have first-hand or eyewitness
accounts. I’m looking for examples of things like, information being
communicated only verbally when it would historically have been put in
writing, people being told not to bring phones, laptops or even take
notes in meetings where they would in the past typically have done so,
eyewitness accounts of things like the administrator or top political
appointees refusing to use official email, phones or computers, or any
other specific, first-hand examples of practices that appear to
demonstrate unprecedented secrecy or transparency.

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Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.